The gauge action used in our simulations is the
“nHYP dislocation suppressing” (NDS) action [1]}.
This is a sum of the usual plaquette term plus an additional term made from smeared links.
We scale all new parameters together, leaving \(\beta \)  the only free parameter in the gauge sector.
The fermions use the clover action.
The links have nHYP smearing [2]}, [3]}.
The clover coefficient is taken to be \(c_{sw}=1\) , a choice
known to work well with nHYP smearing in QCD [4]} and higher-irrep
fermions [5]}. We have a three-dimensional space of bare parameters: \(\beta \) 
and the hopping parameters \(\kappa _4\)  for the \(F\)  s and \(\kappa _6\)  for the \(A_2\)  s.
Spectroscopic quantities are measured as screening masses, that is, from
correlators projected along one of the spatial directions of the lattice.
When we quote a value for a quark mass, we mean the quantity extracted from the
Axial Ward Identity, or AWI quark mass.
